PRODUCE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 5, 1 February 1900, Page 13

PRODUCE.

London, January 24. — The wheat markets are improving. The The French crops are reported to be damaged. First Victorian cargoes (January-February shipments) are offering at 29s ; parcels, 28s.

Butter is steady, but trade prices are barely maintained. The arrivals are heavy. Cheese is firm. Prices are unchanged. Rabbits : Colonial, little doing. Quoted at 9£d to 9! 2 d. London, January 28.— Frozen Mutton : Canterbury sheep, 3d ; heav}' River Plate mutton, 2 9-16 d ; other meat is unchanged.

Wellington, January 29. — The Agent-General cables that there is no alteration in the butter market since last week. Arrivals of colonial this season to date number 41(5,263cwfc. Last year it wa9 263,459cwt. There has been no alteration in the cheese market since last week Small Canterbury mutton, 3d ; other brands and River Plate, 22<3 per lb. The lamb season has not commenced. Messrs. Nelson Bros, have received the following cable from the C.C, and D. Company : — ' No improvement in the frozen meat

market. To-day's quotations : Best Canterbury mutton, 3d ; best Dunedin and Southland, 2Jd ; best Napier and North Island, 2|d. Lamb ; Fir&t quality, 4£d ; second, 4d.